update on my mom - nanette. brain surgery thursday

[Thebobo]

Best wishes to your mom and your family.

 

[Mai72]

I hope it works out OP. I lost my mom over 2 years ago. It was the worst experience of my life. 🙁

Good luck.

 

[Zorander]

Wishing her all the best.

 

[JJChicken]

Best wishes for your mom.

 

[DaTT]

Hope all works out. Best wishes.

 

[Dari]

Does anyone else find this disturbing? How can two brain surgeons have such differing opinions? Experience? People often joke that economists have differing opinions but brain surgery is supposed to be far more concrete since it's in the realm of hard science.

 

[Greenman]

It's not the least bit surprising to me. My father went through something similar, a cardiologist told him he had an extremely serious condition that would almost certainly be fatal. He got a second opinion and the second fellow told him he needed more exercise. He lived for another 25 years.

I've personally run across several doctors that simply weren't very good at their job, I had a dentist once that goofed and damn near gassed me to death sitting in the chair.

 

[Vdubchaos]

OP, best wishes to you and your family. We all hope for the best.

Does anyone else find this disturbing? How can two brain surgeons have such differing opinions? Experience? People often joke that economists have differing opinions but brain surgery is supposed to be far more concrete since it's in the realm of hard science.

When my wife went for a bunion surgery, year after we found out that there is something like 100 different ways of doing it.

Our doctor never informed us of the fact and didn't go over the options etc.

 

[corwin]

Does anyone else find this disturbing? How can two brain surgeons have such differing opinions? Experience? People often joke that economists have differing opinions but brain surgery is supposed to be far more concrete since it's in the realm of hard science.

It's called "practicing" medicine for a reason...every surgeon has a differing level of experience, some may know about newer procedures than others, some may just be more willing to try something others don't have the cajones to do, sometimes in extreme situations the risk is worth it

 

[corwin]

Anyone know when the surgery is scheduled for?

 

[rudeguy]

It's called "practicing" medicine for a reason...every surgeon has a differing level of experience, some may know about newer procedures than others, some may just be more willing to try something others don't have the cajones to do, sometimes in extreme situations the risk is worth it

My mom has had severe health issues for the past 20 years. She has ran into this so many times that its scary. Some docs would prefer to not do anything than take a risk, some just don't know that its possible, some just are not competent.

Praying for Nanette and her family. I hope we get an update soon.

 

[Pheran]

Best wishes for Nanette's recovery.

 

[angminas]

Does anyone else find this disturbing? How can two brain surgeons have such differing opinions? Experience? People often joke that economists have differing opinions but brain surgery is supposed to be far more concrete since it's in the realm of hard science.

Q: What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of their med school class?

A: Doctor.

 

[werepossum]

Does anyone else find this disturbing? How can two brain surgeons have such differing opinions? Experience? People often joke that economists have differing opinions but brain surgery is supposed to be far more concrete since it's in the realm of hard science.

Not at all surprising to me. Brain surgery is interpreting grainy 3D images and imagining exactly what they mean. My cousin began violently throwing up and eventually ended up in the ER. Three brain surgeons later he was told that he had an inoperable tumor and had only a couple weeks to live, yet after a couple weeks he suddenly stopped having convulsions. A week later he went home. ALL his doctors agreed that he had only a couple weeks to live, yet he lived maybe five more years without any symptoms. Then one day he just dropped dead, no convulsions or anything, as inexplicable as his recovery. Also had a friend who had an inoperable brain tumor the size of a softball, diagnosed as a parasitic twin which after almost twenty years had begun to grow. She was given only weeks to live, yet when I met her she had been under the death sentence for eight years. She did have some symptoms - pupils different sizes and sometimes passing out when the tumor shifted on what it pressed - but had abandoned all her medication when near death and had treated it for near a decade with nothing more than weed. For all I know she's still alive thirty-odd years later, she got married and moved to the west coast.

Have to admit though that all this not knowing is making me antsy. Let us hope and pray Kathi's mom is okay.

 

[IEC]

Q: What do you call the person who graduated at the bottom of their med school class?

A: Doctor.

Bottom of the med school class does NOT end up as a neurosurgeon.

 

[BoomerD]

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